Parq.Sefr.t. Lov~-Melan&holy. Memb.t.Subf. 2 • . __t3£_ that# i&likely to be fo. iOne thing l'!'iU adde, that I fuPpofe that in no age i V••m dix<· pafi, I know n61 by whAt defltny of thu tmhappy ttme, time have never ap. ~~·;::;r:~~~pearedo~ puwed themfelves (omany lecherous diveOs, Satyrs and Genii, tro~v• ran· 114 tn thu ofours, & appeares by the datly narr.ltlom, and zudwallJenten. tan"opJ<lm ces upon record. Read more ofthis quefrion in Plutarch vi I. Num.e, 4uS:YJ.7;~;, Jlina~civ.Dei.lib.I5 .Wierus lib-3-deprttflig. D£m. qir.ld11s CMnbrev. iflorumGeni- jis Ittnerar .Camb.ltb. I. c.M aIleus malefic .-qu4Jl. 5 .part. 1. lacobus Reuf- ·~umftofleo· (us lib.5 ,cap.6.fol. 54· Godelman. lib.z.cap.4. Eraftus, Valeftus de facr. difft,quamumph'l I h N'd F' · l'b S ' l'b nuncquotidi.... to.c~f·4~· on t .er orntcar, t .5.c.g. tro'{_.Ctcogna. t .3.cap. nuarratio- 3· Delrto, Ltpftus, Bodmed,emonol. lsh.z.cap.7. Perertus in Gen.lib, 8. in "'"w iudi- 6,ca•.ver *• King lA ME s &c. · c1talcr [erme- r f ti.rprofcrunt. Sus s R c T • .1. How love tyrMtnir.ethover men. Loveof HeroicaOmelan&hlly hu depnition,part ajfefled. Ou have heard how this tyrant Love rageth with k>rute beails and fpirirs, now let us confider what paffions it cauferh amongfr men.. I< Pirg: . . kJmprobeaino{ qtdd non mortalia peflora cogu~ How 1 For~< ;sa Rttckks the heatts ofmorrall men) Horref'o reftrens,-••- ~"1,' '[ h " I am almofi afraid to relate, amazed, I and ailiamcd, it hathwrought .1:~.,0 ~h~c~ fuch frupend and prodigious effects, fuch foule offences. Love indeed ar.cdo_ncof ([may nor deny) firfr united Provinces, builtcirries,and by a perpcru- ~';;\'"f'"'' all generation ;nakesand prefcrves mankindc, propagates the Church; P • ·"· but if it rage it is no morelove,but burning lufr,a dileafe,Phrenfic,Madm'Piurarch. nefie, Hell. m Eft orct" iOe, vis eJI immedicabili.J, eft rabies infana;'ris no amator.lib. vertuous habit this, but a vehement perturbation ofthe minde, a mon• nLib.<J. fierofnature,wirte &art, as Alexu inn Athmotw fets it out, viriliter ar~. dax,mufiebriter timidU111,{11rore protceps, labore injroflum,mel felleum, bland• perctl}!io &c.lt fubverts kingdomes,ovcrrhrowescitties,rownes, families, marres,corrupts, aAd makes a maffacre of men; thunder and light~ing,warres, fire>, plagues, have not done that mifchiefe to mankinde,asthisburning luft,thisbrutifh paffion. Let S~domeand Gomor· rah,Troia,(whichDares PhrygitiS,and Diflis cretenfts will make good) 1 and I know not how many citriesbeare record,.-· & fuit ante Helen•m, &c.all fucceeding ages will fubfcribe: lone of Naples in Italy, Fredegun. de and Brtmhaltin France,all hifrories are fullofthefe Bafiliskes.Befides thofe daily monomacbies, murders,effulion ofblood, rapes, riot &im· moderatecxpence, to fatisfy their lulh,beggery,fhame,lo!Tc,torture,punilhment,dilgrace,loathfomedifeafes that proceed from thence, worfe then calemures and pefrilent fcavers, thofe often Gouts, Pox,Arthtritil, palfies,crampes,Sciatic•, convulfions,a,hes, combufrions,&c. which torment the body, that ferall melancholy, which crucifies the Soule in this life, and everlaftingly torments in the wor Id to come. N orwjthfranding they know chefe and many fuch miferies, threats, tortures willfurelycome upon them,rewards,exhortations, I contrA, yet either
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